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Raymond James Wood Le Fèvre (1 April 1905 - 26 August 1986) was professor of chemistry at the University of Sydney from 1946 until his retirement in 1970. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 1946, a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1954, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1959. The University of Sydney awarded him an honorary D.Sc. in 1985.

Le Fèvre was born in London, and studied chemistry at Queen Mary College, University of London (B.Sc., 1925; M.Sc., 1927; Ph.D., 1929; D.Sc., 1935) where he was a lecturer (1928–38) and reader (1938–46). He married in 1931, his wife also being a chemistry researcher who became a D.Sc. in 1960. From 1941 to 1944 he spent World War II as an RAF officer in Malaya, Australia and New Guinea before returning to England. He and his family migrated to Sydney in 1946 where he took up an appointment as professor of chemistry at the University of Sydney.

References

1. Aroney, M. J.; Buckingham, A. D. (1988). "Raymond James Wood Le Fevre. 1 April 1905-26 August 1986". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 34: 374. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1988.0014.
2. Raymond James Wood Le Fèvre, DSc, FAA, FRS, Australian Academy of Science
3. M.J. Aroney and A.D. Buckingham, Raymond James Wood Le Fèvre 1905-1986, originally published in Historical Records of Australian Science, vol.7, no.3, 1988.
4. Raymond James Wood Le Fèvre Brightsparcs
5. ^ Raymond James Wood Le Fèvre, Australian Dictionary of Biography
6. Raymond James Wood Le Fèvre, eoas

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